Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East citing Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	223	164	167
Rank change year-on-year	-59	+3	+41
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2	7	8	12
As % of all contract jobs in the South East	0.11%	0.21%	0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category	0.38%	0.67%	1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	5	3	7
10^th Percentile	£334	£276	£321
25^th Percentile	£459	£285	£417
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£300	£638
Median % change year-on-year	+91.67%	-52.94%	+21.43%
75^th Percentile	£625	£488	£741
90^th Percentile	£670	£600	£825
England median daily rate	£500	£525	£603
% change year-on-year	-4.76%	-12.88%	+10.83%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing cloud computing skills in the South East.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	1,823	1,203	1,206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East	27.57%	31.85%	28.90%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,150	806	816
10^th Percentile	£270	£204	£262
25^th Percentile	£413	£363	£405
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£485	£513
Median % change year-on-year	+3.09%	-5.37%	-2.38%
75^th Percentile	£610	£575	£625
90^th Percentile	£675	£650	£663
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£534
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-6.37%	+0.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	170	57	22
10^th Percentile	£15.50	£12.50	£19.45
25^th Percentile	£24.44	£14.75	£23.44
Median hourly rate	£43.68	£18.82	£47.50
Median % change year-on-year	+132.09%	-60.38%	+86.46%
75^th Percentile	£77.50	£27.75	£60.95
90^th Percentile	£97.75	£43.39	£64.73
England median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£36.00
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-30.14%	+30.91%

Amazon EC2 Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Amazon EC2 Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2.

Amazon EC2 Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 31 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2 Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Hampshire	-29	2	-	-	2
Buckinghamshire	-28	1	£575	-11.54%
Thames Valley	-40	1	£575	+21.05%
West Sussex	-	1	£459	-
Amazon EC2 England

Amazon EC2 Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Amazon EC2 also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region citing Amazon EC2.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	100.0%	7
2	CI/CD	85.7%	6
3	Amazon CloudWatch	71.4%	5
3	Amazon EKS	71.4%	5
3	Amazon S3	71.4%	5
3	AWS Lambda	71.4%	5
3	Containerisation	71.4%	5
3	Infrastructure as Code	71.4%	5
3	Serverless	71.4%	5
3	Terraform	71.4%	5
3	Virtual Private Cloud	71.4%	5
12	Amazon ECS	57.1%	4
12	AWS CloudFormation	57.1%	4
12	SC Cleared	57.1%	4
12	Security Cleared	57.1%	4
16	AI	42.9%	3
16	AWS CloudTrail	42.9%	3
16	DevOps	42.9%	3
16	DevSecOps	42.9%	3
16	Docker	42.9%	3
16	Kubernetes	42.9%	3
16	Security Operations	42.9%	3
23	Amazon RDS	28.6%	2
23	Dashboard Development	28.6%	2
23	Dynatrace	28.6%	2
23	Microservices	28.6%	2
23	Observability	28.6%	2
23	Reverse Engineering	28.6%	2
23	Security Architecture	28.6%	2
23	Security Testing	28.6%	2

Amazon EC2 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	100.0%	7
2	Amazon CloudWatch	71.4%	5
2	Amazon EKS	71.4%	5
2	Amazon S3	71.4%	5
2	AWS Lambda	71.4%	5
2	Serverless	71.4%	5
2	Virtual Private Cloud	71.4%	5
8	Amazon ECS	57.1%	4
8	AWS CloudFormation	57.1%	4
10	AWS CloudTrail	42.9%	3
11	Amazon GuardDuty	14.3%	1
11	Azure	14.3%	1
11	Azure AKS	14.3%	1
11	Azure DevOps	14.3%	1
11	Azure ExpressRoute	14.3%	1
11	Azure Key Vault	14.3%	1
11	Azure Sentinel	14.3%	1
11	Entra ID	14.3%	1
11	GitHub	14.3%	1
11	GitHub Actions	14.3%	1